danarhea

John McCain talks a great talk about leadership, but talk is cheap. People are not defined by what they say. They are defined by what they do. McCain has missed more votes than any other senator. Here are the statistics:

Votes missed - 394
Percentage of votes missed - 63.0%

McCain has not showed up to vote in the Senate almost 2/3 of the time, and now he is telling people that he is a leader? From what McCain has shown us (not what he is telling us), my bet is that he won't show up to be president either, when the chips are down.

Senate voting records are here.

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Summerwind

Unfortunately, Obama's isn't much better. They both fail in this regard; IMO.

obvious Child

So let's not vote for either of these buffoons.

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Summerwind

Well, if that's how you respond to a single issue, go for it. I prefer to keep it all in perspective. I can be disappointed and even outraged about certain aspects of people that I would/will choose. I would be a fool to think anyone is going to line up with my ideals perfectly.

Kernel Sanders

Wow - way to fail to mention that Obama is third on that list

Votes: 277 votes missed (44.3%), 348 votes cast

In case you haven't noticed, these men are currently running for President. The results you posted are from the 110th Congress, let's see what the 109th turns up for McCain

Votes: 58 votes missed (9.0%), 587 votes cast

Link

File this one under U for useless metrics

bhkad

And yet the people of Arizona think well enough of his performance to keep returning him to Washington.

You miss a few votes when you are visiting war zones trying to help determine the best way to win...to resist the spread of Islamism.

Obama served 143 days in the Senate before declaring for President. And what did he do in those 143 days? Nothing of much note EXCEPT to call on us to leave Iraq in defeat.

McCain has been named one of Time magazine's "25 Most Influential People in America".[106]

Obama is a Socialist.

Instead of pushing his country toward Communism like Obama, McCain has spent his life fighting against Communism.

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jfuh

Who's the alternative?

Perhaps you can tell me why socialism is a bad thing? I have a feeling that aside from the framing you don't really know what socialism is.

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obvious Child

Or Communism for that matter.

Generally those who talk about the evils of Communism without being first prompted to do so are those who are ignorant of the ideology.

If Socialism is always so horrible, why do we have socialized roads? Socialized police? Socialized firefighters? A socialized military?

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jfuh

The military of course being the greatest irony of those here that are typically screaming their heads off on these matters and who make the fallacious argument that liberal = socialist = communist = stalin thus a liberal is stalin.
Without even first doing the homework to ask what is socialism or communism or liberalism.

On the topic however, I think what is more important is not whether or not McCain missed 63% of the votes he was supposed to participate in, but rather that he seems to have forgotten how he voted on 80% of what he voted on in particular of issues that he claims are most important to him. He didn't even bother to vote on Jim Webb's GI bill and was a huge obstruction to that bill. But won't stop him taking credit for it.

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bhkad

Maybe I don't. So, my mind is open. Convince me that Communism is good for America.

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